September 1, 2005 On Broadway, Doubt weighs certainty and fear

New York Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, and selling out nightly on Broadway, Doubt presents four unforgettable characters caught in an intriguing detective story, a collision with faith and morals and a...

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September 1, 2005 Native journalist writes gripping account of residential school

Not again, you might be thinking. We have heard this story before, many times. What redeeming benefit is there in another reminder of the Indian residential school tragedies? The churches in Canada have spent more than a...

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September 1, 2005 Anglican council censures Canada, U.S.

Nottingham, EnglandThe Anglican Consultative Council, which met June 18-29, voted to censure the Canadian and American churches for their more-liberal stand on homosexuality after listening to presentations from both churches. ...

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September 1, 2005 Beleaguered churches receive crucial support

Delegates to the third Afro-Anglicanism Conference held in Toronto last July criticized the Anglican Consultative Council, urged greater participation by youth and called for adoption of the United Nations' international...

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September 1, 2005 Mother's Joy

Warm hello A mother and child from the Miao tribe in Kunming, Yunnan province, were among those who greeted an ecumenical delegation from the Canadian Anglican, Presbyterian and United churches, which visited the People's...

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September 1, 2005 The hard choices that China's churches make

Beijing Westerners are often baffled at the rate of Christian conversions in China – where public evangelism is banned, where the state imposes regulations on religion and where Christianity continues to carry the baggage...

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September 1, 2005 Bible printing press thrives in China as demand grows

NanjingDecades ago, only a few brave souls dared to own a Bible in Communist China. Owning one – whether smuggled from overseas or copied by hand from dog-eared Bibles that managed to survive the turmoil of the Cultural...

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September 1, 2005 The lure of old China

We traveled by train from Shanghai to Nanjing, the old capital, for four-and-a-half hours. After bumper-to-bumper traffic and rows upon rows of humongous buildings in Shanghai it was a relief to see vast fields of green and...

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September 1, 2005 Activists decry 'diversion' of aid

Some donations given by Canadians for the victims of last December's tsunami have in a perverse way ended up contributing to human rights violations in Aceh, Indonesia and funding so-called reconstruction projects that benefit...

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September 1, 2005 Moving moment

American Kathy Sullivan Vandenberg weeps as she kneels for the laying of hands at an ordination ceremony for her and eight other women to the Catholic diaconate and the priesthood. The ceremony, which was not sanctioned by the...

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